Ofcom needs more powers to remove misleading posts, says watchdog

The chief inspector of the Tasraks says that the official media organizer needs more powers to remove the publications such as those that encouraged the summer riots for 2024.
Sir Andy Cook said it took a long time to remove wrong information on social media, allowing her to spread more and more impact.
He said that the online safety law – although it was recently passed – did not give the organizer the tools it needs to contain this content.
“Offcom must have the right capacity and the ability to quickly download the publications if they are effective,” he said.
“If you do not drop them quickly, it is spreading viral.”
He added that the online safety law is currently “small or non -existent” in scenarios such as violent disturbance last summer.
But the BBC told the BBC that it was not its role under the “evaluation of individual parts of the content or to download specific publications.”
The organizer said: “Instead, our powers include ensuring that sites and applications have effective systems and operations to protect people from illegal articles, and to ensure that the other harmful content is not faced.”
“If the platforms fail to act and put their users in danger in this process, they can expect an enforcement procedure.”
At the time of the disturbances, Offcom faced criticism for not making more effort to curb what is not correct and inflammatory.
He previously concluded that there is a “clear relationship” between the turmoil in England and the jobs on social media and correspondence applications.
Sir Andy made statements as His Majesty’s Inspectorate in Citizenship, Fire and Rescue Services, published her second report on the police’s response to riots, with a focus on the impact of social media.
More than 30 people were arrested for the jobs they performed during the riots, which were raised by the killing of three children in Soutbort.
Among Tyler Kai, 26, and Jordan Barlor, 28, who were sentenced to 38 months and 20 months in prison, in a row, due to racist hatred on social media.
There The first report on the riots published in 2024The Supervisory Authority found that the police were not ready for the size of the turmoil that broke out in parts of the United Kingdom.
Sir Andy said that the police have lost opportunities to prepare for the disturbance on a large scale, and previous incidents that involve “extremist national feeling” have been reduced.
In the new report, he said that some police forces show that they had an “exceptionally limited” ability to deal with online jobs due to a lack of resources.
He called for changing laws on incitement to general disturbance to increase people’s deterrence from creating misleading social media functions.
“The forces cannot control the speed and size of the online content or confront it,” he said.
“But they need to estimate the best extent of the speed of movement that will require it to face the wrong novels via the Internet and to be innovative in its approach.”
He said he believed that the police should “fill the empty information” that enables misleading information so that people can face the facts.
“The police cannot be negative when public safety is in danger,” he said.